Introduction -- International organisations and the challenge of global poverty -- Ethics, human rights and global justice -- UNDP : the human development paradigm -- The World Bank : the internal dynamics of a complex organization -- UNESCO : poverty as a violation of human rights -- The...

NGOs play an important role in international development cooperation, but the allocation of NGO aid has rarely been mapped, let alone explained. Based on a representative dataset for 61 important NGOs from various OECD countries, we analyze the targeting of NGO aid across a large number of...

This paper assesses the effectiveness of foreign aid in reducing poverty through its impact on human development indicators. We use a dataset of both bilateral aid and NGO aid flows. Our results show that NGO aid reduces infant mortality and does so more effectively than official bilateral aid....